“Drug dealers may not be nice, but they’re not the cause of addiction.”

Absurdities, Ironies, Hyper-Production and Artificial Bogeymen (zenodo.org)

“This piece is an expanded version of a short letter to the editor about an article in Nature. The Nature article was titled “Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive?” The original letter to the editor pointed out that the article made a temporal freeze frame error and was presented in a mode of disingenuous questioning that would hamper community-wide self-examination into the issue of science production. The editors passed – no hard feelings. This piece expanded the letter to address issues related to what has come to be termed ‘publication overload’ (also called ‘publication strain’ in some studies).”

Cover print by Gilbert Garcin